It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Refugee Nation, Naked Trump, Singing Your Love for Calculus, and more!
Sunday Funny: Resting Geek Face. (via Wondermark)
Awesome Sauce Music Friday: I Love Calculus
The Joan Jett/math crossover you didn’t know you needed.
Make It Stranger
Stranger Things meets typography to make the perfect nostalgia storm.
Do You Have a Flag?
The Olympics put a spotlight on refugee athletes, and now they have a flag and anthem of their own.
The Naked Trump
Jim explains the problems with those naked Trump statues that have been popping up.
Citation Needed
Green Party candidate Jill Stein has implied that the FDA can’t be trusted. Topher is going to need your sources, Dr. Stein.
Depression Through the Generations
Bethany explores a study of depression a 30 year, four generation study.
Weekend Reads: 3D Clitoris, Watership Down, and Olympic Heroes as Superheroes
Lou keeps you up to date on the best reads on the internet.
Featured image credit: Scott Akerman via Flickr
Hmmm. As a male, and especially white, athlete, Ryan Lochte is given all the licensed irresponsibility of child. Athletes who’s performance lends prestige to others (Olympians, football players perhaps most of all) are indulged and infantilised to a shocking degree. So, in a grotesque sense, he IS a kid.
I found myself cringing at Lochte’s affect before the whole ‘robbery-vandalism-false report’ biz had even started. It may not be fair, but I think I was reading a shallow, drunk, irresponsible, frat boyish note from the start.